Let us repeat the relevant language. YouTube can use the Content:. But what if they change their business to creating content? Then there could be trouble. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service.
Sure enough, there are. The bad news: Those restrictions are in another section, 5. B, which reads in part as follows:. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content.
YouTube and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content. Well, that is indeed a relief. True, it is buried, but at least the language limits the license granted to the other Viewers.
It should be better language and it should be with the section on the Content quoted elsewhere in this column. In a better world, it would pop up every time someone tried to use it but we live in this world. Happily, the licenses are limited in duration.
They last until you remove or delete your videos. That works. Yes, you can sigh with relief now we know that the suspense was killing you.
As far as reality is concerned, those rights, and their limitations, are probably not enough to keep others from using your videos. At least now you know more about how to read a TOS. Have a legal question?
As noted, it varies from site to site, and going through every site is too big a job even for theguardian. However, here are some key lines from the small print on some of the most popular sites — if you are already using them, you are subject to these terms.
YouTube : You retain all of your ownership rights to and videos you upload, but when you use the site you grant a limited licence to YouTube and other users. That licence is a "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence with right to sub-licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service and otherwise in connection with the provision of the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service and derivative works thereof in any media formats and through any media channels".
The licence extends to YouTube's affiliates. When you leave YouTube it retains the right to keep copies of your content on its servers. Twitter : You retain your rights to any content you post on Twitter, but you grant the website a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence with the right to sublicense "to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" your content.
The licence allows Twitter to make content available "to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services". It adds: "Such additional uses by Twitter , or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available".
Facebook : You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. However, when you use Facebook you give it the right to use information "in connection with the services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the developers that build the games, applications, and websites you use".
Instagram — The small print is set to change on 16 January The site has committed to reviewing the new terms which currently say that while you still own your content, you grant Instagram "a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service".
Flickr : Flickr is owned by Yahoo! When you upload a photo you retain ownership, but grant the company a licence to use it.
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